BLADE will deliver soft x-ray beam in the energy range from 0.4 to 2 keV. The research will be focused on the magnetisation and the magnetic structure of novel nanostructured systems. These magnetic properties can be probed thanks to high dichroic effects in the soft x-ray region. The dichroic effect will be studied both in absorption and scattering experiments.

Two APPLE II undulators will produce photons with arbitrary linear or circular polarisation. A high energy resolution will be achieved using a plane grating monochromator. For increasing the sensitivity of dichroism measurements, a fast polarisation switching and a fast energy scanning will be implemented.

On the scattering branch, there will be a soft X-ray diffractometer, RASOR, which consists of a three-circle diffractometer with a polarisation analyser. The concept is built around a Janis helium cryostat allowing soft x-ray reflectivity and diffraction from samples at the temperature down to 10 K.

On the absorption branch, not available in the commissioning call, a high field magnet will be used for performing magnetic dichroism experiments. The magnetic field will be supplied by a superconducting split-pair coil with a uni-axial magnetic field of 14 T along the incident beam direction. Sample will be cooled by variable temperature inserts with a lowest temperature below 1 K.

Rasor diffractometer	Absorption end station magnet